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The Fiend at the Throttle

Plot: Rita, a telegraph operator, informed that a freight train which is due to pass her station filled with high explosives is about to be overtaken by a passenger train on the same track with a madman at the controls, leaps onto a handcar, which she crashes into the passenger train and thus stops it; she jumps onto the cowcatcher, and into the cab of the engine, where, after a hard struggle with the fiend, she manages to overcome him and sidetrack the passenger train thus preventing disaster.
Release Date: Saturday, May 15 1915
109 years ago
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Portrait of Elsie MacLeodElsie MacLeod. Elsie MacLeod was 25 in The Fiend at the Throttle as 'Rita - a Telegraph Operator'.
Birthday: Wed, Jan 01 1890
Portrait of John BurdenJohn Burden. John Burden was >> in The Fiend at the Throttle as 'Hopkins - the Engineer'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of DeVore PalmerDeVore Palmer. DeVore Palmer was >> in The Fiend at the Throttle as 'Logan - Operator at Hobart'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday
Portrait of Philip RobsonPhilip Robson. Philip Robson was >> in The Fiend at the Throttle as 'A Substitute Engineer'.
Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Crew

Portrait of Doty HobartDoty Hobart. Doty Hobart was 28 in The Fiend at the Throttle as 'Writer'
Birthday: Tue, Sep 28 1886 –
Died: Sun, Nov 16 1958